Forcible conversion erased all legal differences between Spain’s Muslim populations

Evidence

We have seen that the Muslims of Castile and Aragon, hitherto subjected to very different regimes, came, after the forcible conversions of the early 1520s, to suffer the same fate. All Spain’s Muslims became either converts to Christianity or crypto-Muslims who were obliged to put on a pretense of being Christians. It made no difference whether the Muslims in question had been forced into conversion after participating in armed rebellion against the Crown (the case of many of the Moriscos of the Alpujarras) or came from families that over many generations had been loyal servants of Christian monarchs (the Navarrese, the Aragonese, and the Segovians, for example): all were now treated alike. — L. P. Harvey, Muslims in Spain, 1500 to 1614, 585

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the theme of how state violence homogenizes formerly differentiated subject populations — echoes the treatment of Moriscos versus fully converted groups in the larger religious-cleanse literature.